UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 29, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company recently designed a virtual tour of the mining companies’ filtering facilities, the holding’s press service reports. The up-to-date 3D program won the gold medal at the 2nd Siberian Environmental Forum. The virtual tour gives the user a full picture of every single stage at which mining water gets filtered. The 360-degree videos of Yerunakovskaya 8 Mine’s and Uskovskaya Mine’s advanced filtering facilities allow a VR headset user to visit all the locations, learn about the tech processes, and get acquainted with

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 29, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is currently Russia’s only ferrous metallurgical enterprise to make it to the rating of top ten environmentally aware and proactive companies; the rating is carried by the TV channel Zhivaya Planeta and the MOMRI every six months, MMK’s press service reports. Based on its environmental initiatives in the first half of 2018, MMK went two positions up in the rating and was listed as the country’s seventh most environmentally aware business. There are 33 oil and gas companies and metallurgical enterprises in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 29, 2018. 18 employees of ChelPipe Group’s pipe-manufacturing and oilfield service divisions are competing in the 5th All-Russian WorldSkills Hi Tech blue-collar job championship this year, the company press service reports. Now the 5th All-Russian WorldSkills Hi Tech Championship is taking place in Yekaterinburg EXPO on October 24-28, 2018. The Group’s ‘white-coated metallurgists’ are contesting in eleven different categories, including Mechatronics, Industrial Robotics, Reverse Engineering, and Welding. ‘ChelPipe Group is a regular participant in WorldSkills

UrBC, Moscow, October 29, 2018. According to the Russian banks’ reports as of October 1, 2018, Russian nationals kept withdrawing their dollar savings ($662m) as well as their ruble savings (RU 141bn) from Russian banks throughout September. Most of the money fled from the banks mentioned in the U.S. anti-Russia package that included a proposal to ban foreign currency transactions, Kommersant reports. Sberbank’s foreign currency deposits shrank by over $901m in the course of last month; those of VTB dropped by $95m; those of Sovcombank by $55m. Some of these funds got transferred to Russian

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 29, 2018. You can now use MegaFon SIM cards to test the quality of drinking water in Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk: the smart solutions have been applied within the telemetric quality control system of local water vending machines, the company press service reports. Now according to the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center, over 60% of Russians are not really curious about the quality of potable water, and 84% of their respondents drink water from the tap. In Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk, locals boil, filter, or desilt it first. Even these precautions might